The Grey Area

<p>Despite being subtitled "A Mystery" Ken Edwards' third novel is no conventional crime story. An old and vulnerable woman has gone missing and a private detective Phidias Peralta an illegal resident in a business park near the run-down port of Deadmans Beach has been hired by her nephew to find her. His assistant Lucy is more concerned with her seven-year-old son who is failing at school - but she too is drawn into the quest to try to solve a mystery for which there appears to be no single solution.</p>